Exhausted by the stirring events of the day and night he fell asleep at once.
Three days later they were on their way back to Charleston.

They heard that the inauguration of the new President had not been well received by the doubtful states.

Even the border slave states were afraid the lower South had been a little too hasty.

But among the youths of the Palmetto Guards there was neither apprehension nor depression.

They had been present at the christening of the new nation, and now they were going back to their own Charleston.
"Everything is for the best," said young Langdon, whose unfailing spirits bubbled to the brim, "we'll have down here the tightest and finest republic the world ever heard of.